In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
More Quotes from Mary McCarthy:
Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.Mary McCarthy
Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.
Mary McCarthy
When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.
Mary McCarthy
Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.
Mary McCarthy
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.
Mary McCarthy
It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence . . .
Mary McCarthy
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Politics Quotes, Reasoning QuotesBased on Keywords: dictated, shameful
I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.
Bernardo Bertolucci
To find a prince, you gotta kiss some toads.
Foxy Brown
I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.
Andy Summers